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For Andre Lane, playing basketball is something that he loves to do. It’s his passion.
Sure the Evergreen junior is a three-sport star, playing tennis in the fall and running track in the spring, but basketball is his true calling. And he knows it.
“This is definitely my favorite sport by far,” the modest 6-foot small forward said.
That’s obvious by Lane’s play on the floor. As a sophomore last season, Lane displayed that passion with his play, and he certainly has his supporters.

Now that we’re into the holiday season and near the end of the year, many Coloradans are preparing to make a large part of their charitable gifts for 2011. For the second year in a row, we have the opportunity to make many of those gifts through Colorado Gives Day.

Editor’s Note: Sylvia’s column will reappear next week. This column is reprinted from Dec. 10, 2008.

Christmas is not far away, and as we do our shopping and baking, our thoughts turn to Christmas decorations. In England and in our Eastern states, mistletoe is an important part of Christmas. The mistletoe common throughout the South grows mainly on oaks. It forms huge clumps or balls, and the whole plant generally is cut from the tree. The sprigs with the white berries are usually sold for Christmas decorating.

The Evergreen Chamber of Commerce, a longtime presence in downtown Evergreen, may be moving to the Stagecoach Center at Evergreen Parkway and Stagecoach Boulevard, depending on a successful contract signing.

So far, the chamber has declined to release details of the move, which has been confirmed by anonymous sources. But the board of directors reportedly approved the decision in concept at a meeting in November.

For 25 years, the music students of Evergreen High School have presented the annual Madrigal event. The celebration began many years ago as a Madrigal dinner, and over the years has evolved into a Madrigal Marketplace and Faire. On Saturday, Dec. 3, visitors can enjoy strolling minstrels, jugglers and a taste of Jolly Olde England to kick off the holiday season.

Author Pamela Powers Lawson was expecting a stable, secure life, but instead it was a series of wild successes followed by poverty and disappointment, multiple forced personal re-inventions, and then renewed direction and possibilities.

Downtown Evergreen is lighting itself up more like a Christmas tree this year, thanks to Evergreen businesspeople who joined forces to beautify two 30-foot-tall cottonwoods next to the Baskin-Robbins ice cream store.

Four mature blue spruce trees were extricated from the Lake House grounds and transported to Stagecoach Park as part of a $4,000 package of improvements to the fields off Evergreen Parkway and Stagecoach Boulevard.

The project included a new seating wall behind the backstop, aluminum bleachers, six replacement trees and an ADA-accessible path from both sides of the park into the baseball backstop area. The slope behind the backstop was regraded to improve safety and reduce erosion.

Before the bleachers, there was no place for people to sit and watch the games.